Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born. To Mrs. Jacob Bertriscky, 36, of Scranton, Pa., Bridgie & Rosie, sixth set of twins, eighteenth and nineteenth children. Thirteen Bertriscky children live...
...Princess might have anticipated, Octavian found the young Sophie more alluring than herself, and immediately set about detaching Sophie's affection from the fat and lecherous Ochs. This was done in an instant, and it was next necessary for the count to employ strategies in order to prevent the degrading marriage which Ochs intended. There was room at the inn to which Ochs abducted the maid (Octavian), whom he had ogled in the boudoir of the Princess. Octavian played tricks on Ochs. The police, Sophie's father, the Princess arrived, but none of them stayed the course of young love...
...were essentially windy political and personal organs. James Gordon Bennett gave the public hot news: the first stock table, Wall Street stories (including swindles and names), police reports, scandals. He made a sensation of the murder of a famed courtesan. He pried into the doings of the top social set, which never accepted him. The Herald's stories rollicked with color. He treated religion as news?a fact which annoyed clergymen. He published the first ship news, had a sailboat go out to Montauk Point to meet incoming ships. He had correspondents in Washington, D. C., who did not stop...
Bennett would write an occasional editorial, set in double-leads on the Herald's front page. His pen was not as facile or as provoking as his father's, but his imagination was wilder. Somebody told him that the Herald was getting to be a Roman Catholic sheet; immediately a roaring editorial headed "To Hell with the Pope" was written. A wise secretary kept it off the press after Bennett had gone...
There are fine scenes, fine moments in the play. The third act set, a huge room which suggests the wide staircases and the servants' hall behind it, has a dark, archaic grandeur...